Mount St. Helens could be warming up for another blow. As reported by KOMO-TV:
Seismologists believe there's an increased likelihood of a “hazardous event” at Mount St. Helens due to recent changes in the mountain's seismic activity.
A notice of volcanic unrest was issued this afternoon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington.
Hundreds of tiny earthquakes began late last week and slowly declined through yesterday morning. However, the swarm has since changed to include more than 10 larger earthquakes of magnitude 2 to 2.8.
That's the most in a 24-hour period since an eruption on October 1986, which was the last dome-building eruption, in which magma reached the surface and added to the pile of lava on the crater floor.
I'm glad that we live several hundred miles to the north… Mt. Baker is dormant.
(and will stay that way I hope)